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2020 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes
Title 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
Chapter 19 - Rules of Construction
Subchapter A. Construction of Words and Phrases
- Section 1901 - Rules of interpretation
- Section 1902 - Number; gender; tense
- Section 1903 - Words and phrases
- Section 1904 - Numerals
- Section 1905 - Joint authority; quorum
- Section 1906 - Bonds
- Section 1907 - Uniform standard time
- Section 1908 - Computation of time
- Section 1909 - Time; publication for successive weeks
- Section 1910 - Time; computation of months
- Section 1921 - Legislative intent controls
- Section 1922 - Presumptions in ascertaining legislative intent
- Section 1923 - Grammar and punctuation of statutes
- Section 1924 - Construction of titles, preambles, provisos, exceptions and headings
- Section 1925 - Constitutional construction of statutes
- Section 1926 - Presumption against retroactive effect
- Section 1927 - Construction of uniform laws
- Section 1928 - Rule of strict and liberal construction
- Section 1929 - Penalties no bar to civil remedies
- Section 1930 - Penalties for each offense
- Section 1931 - Intent to defraud
- Section 1932 - Statutes in pari materia
- Section 1933 - Particular controls general
- Section 1934 - Irreconcilable clauses in the same statute
- Section 1935 - Irreconcilable statutes passed by same General Assembly
- Section 1936 - Irreconcilable statutes passed by different General Assemblies
- Section 1937 - References to statutes and regulations
- Section 1938 - References to public bodies and public officers
- Section 1939 - Use of comments and reports
- Section 1951 - Interpretation of amendatory statutes
- Section 1952 - Effect of separate amendments on code provisions enacted by same General Assembly
- Section 1953 - Construction of amendatory statutes
- Section 1954 - Merger of subsequent amendments
- Section 1955 - Two or more amendments to same provision, one overlooking the other
- Section 1956 - Repeal of amendatory statutes and original statutes subsequently amended
- Section 1957 - Ineffective provisions not revived by reenactment in amendatory statutes
- Section 1961 - Effect of reenactment on original statute
- Section 1962 - Repeal and reenactment
- Section 1963 - Effect of reenactment on intervening statutes
- Section 1971 - Implied repeal by later statute
- Section 1972 - Nonexistence of reason for statute does not effect repeal
- Section 1973 - No implied repeal by nonuser
- Section 1974 - Effect of separate repeals on code provisions by same General Assembly
- Section 1975 - Effect of repeal on limitations
- Section 1976 - Effect of repeal on rights, et cetera
- Section 1977 - Repeal does not revive repealed statute
- Section 1978 - Repeal as obsolete does not affect substantive rights
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